Those Valiant Texans
Author: Robert Merrill Bartlett
Publisher: Peter E. Randall Publisher
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Merrill Bartlett
Publisher: Peter E. Randall Publisher
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Merrill Bartlett
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Published: 1989-05-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780914339274
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Weldon Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0195076443
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These two volumes of writings represent Johnson's experiences as one of black America's premier civil rights statesmen, and leader, participant, and historian of the Black Literary Movement in the 1920s
Author: Christopher B. Bean
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2022-08-24
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1623499704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Texans in World War II offers an informative look at the challenges and changes faced by Texans on the home front during the Second World War. This collection of essays by leading scholars of Texas history covers topics from the African American and Tejano experience to organized labor, from the expanding opportunities for women to the importance of oil and agriculture. Texans in World War II makes local the frequently studied social history of wartime, bringing it home to Texas. An eye-opening read for Texans eager to learn more about this defining era in their state’s history, this book will also prove deeply informative for scholars, students, and general readers seeking detailed, definitive information about World War II and its implications for daily life, economic growth, and social and political change in the Lone Star State.
Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2017-07-18
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1473346053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“The Texan Triumph - A Romance of the San Jacinto Campaign” is the third novel in Joseph A. Altsheler's “The Texan Series”. Each novel in the series is a stand-alone story, but all three are set to the common backdrop of the Texan struggle for freedom from Mexico. An exciting story of great events and heroism, “The Texan Triumph” is highly recommended for fans and collectors of classic Western Fiction. Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862 – 1919) was an American journalist, editor and author famous for his of popular historical fiction aimed at children. Altsheler wrote a total of fifty-one novels during his life, as well as over fifty short stories. Other notable works by this author include: “The Sun of Saratoga, a romance of Burgoyne's surrender” (1897) and “In Circling Camps, a romance of the Civil War” (1900). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction and biography of the author.
Author: Alan Brown
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0811748537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The best ghost stories from the Lone Star State, including . . . • Spirits of the Alamo • The Black Hope Horror • Hauntings at the Driskill Hotel • The legend of El Muerto • Woman Hollering Creek • Stampede Mesa
Author: Patricia Bernstein
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1603445471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annotation. In 1916, seventeen-year-old Jesse Washington, a retarded black boy, was publicly tortured, lynched, and burned on the town square of Waco, Texas, Drawing on extensive research in the national files of the NAACP, local newspapers and archives, and interviews with the descendants of participants in the events of that day, Patricia Bernstein has reconstructed the details of not only the crime but also how it influenced the NAACP's antilynching campaign.